Lehman: Cisco, Nortel may have won Comcast optical RFP
Cisco Systems and Nortel Networks may have won contracts to supply equipment for Comcast’s nationwide optical network, according to a research note issued...
Tellabs acquires Vinci
Tellabs acquired Vinci Systems, a privately-held vendor of customer premises equipment for fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) networks, for “up to” $52.5 million...
MCI test doubles ULH optical reach
In what the company calls an industry first, MCI completed a test of ultralong-haul optical equipment that allowed it to send 40-Gb/s signals 1600 km...
ECI, Nortel win first commercial FTTP deployment
ECI Telecom announced the first commercial deployment of the fiber-to-the-premises equipment currently being trialed by British Telecom. EnergiMidt, a...
ITC^Deltacom cancels three-way CLEC merger
ITC^Deltacom announced today it has cancelled its planned merger with two other competitive local exchange carriers, FDN Communications and Network Telephone....
Legal fight over fiber rights-of-way resumes
A federal appeals court ruling this week gave landowners a green light to continue pursuing potentially billions of dollars in judgments from Sprint,...
Nortel expects Q4 sales increase, flat year
In its latest financial restatement update, Nortel Networks provided its first quarterly guidance in some time by predicting a 23% to 28% sequential increase...
Juniper gets new CFO
Robert R. B. Dykes will become Juniper Networks’ new chief financial officer and executive vice president of business operations on the first day of the...
Fast Forward: Clark McLeod, OpportunityIowa
Quick talk about what's next In November, Clark McLeod, the founder and former chairman and CEO of Iowa-based CLEC McLeod USA, announced his latest project:...
FiberNet acquires ConEd Communications
Network wholesaler FiberNet Telecom Group has agreed to acquire ConEd Communications for $37 million in cash, giving FiberNet a jump start into the enterprise...
Verizon advances on video
Verizon last week nailed down its second cable franchise its first in Texas and got a clear view of the opposition it can expect from the cable industry...
BellSouth looks toward next-gen DSL
For BellSouth, the ILEC with the largest base of deployed fiber, the best path to better residential broadband is through faster DSL. The company's plan...
Asia overtakes the U.S. in PON OLT sales this year
The Asian/Pacific market is set to surpass North America this year in sales of optical line terminal (OLT) hardware, the passive optical networking (PON)...
Ciena reverses misfortune
Ciena surpassed expectations in its fiscal fourth quarter earnings report, with stronger than expected revenue growth and lower than expected cash burn,...
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